APRIL IS POETRY MONTH: 'Woodrow Wilson' by David Young

Monday, April 14, 2014 - 09:02

In the course of David Young's poems, we meet literary greats such as Basho, Osip Mandelstam, and Henry Vaughan, but also some political figures who've captured our imagination: Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, Chairman Mao, even Adlai Stevenson, whose fate the poet ponders while cleaning fish, in a poem set at a Maine resort in the summer of 1956. Poetic portraits of our leaders, whether in their moment or drawn much later, often become provocative portraits in our collective consciousness.

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